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Automatically associated channels: Cav2.1 , Slo1

Title: Sporadic hemiplegic migraine presenting as acute encephalopathy.

Authors: Kayo Ohmura, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Yoshiaki Saito, Takahito Wada, Mikio Goto, Shiro Seto

Journal, date & volume: Brain Dev., 2012 Sep , 34, 691-5

PubMed link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22136990

Abstract
A 10-year-old boy with psychomotor developmental delay and cerebellar vermis atrophy developed right hemiplegia with vomiting, unconsciousness, convulsions, and late-onset fever. Slow delta activity was noted over the left hemisphere on electroencephalography, and neuroimaging revealed swelling of the left temporo-occipital cerebral cortex with restricted diffusivity, successive transient cortical atrophy, and hyperperfusion over the left cerebral hemisphere. Interleukin-6 was elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid. The acute symptoms resolved completely within 3 weeks after onset, but hypoperfusion persisted in the left posterior cortex thereafter. Another episode with transient left hemiplegia appeared 7 months later, followed by recurrence of migraine attacks. Analysis of the CACNA1A gene revealed a mutation of c.1997 C>T (p.T666M). None of his family members had migraine. This case represents an unusual evolution of sporadic hemiplegic migraine with manifestations of acute encephalopathy, for which the role of migraine-related inflammatory process is assumed.